Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw and XD

Please update, theatre expanded to 15 screens on May 29, 1998 by the previous owners Majic Johnson Theatres (screens were expanded to the complex, similar to Danbury, Freehold and Monmouth expansions)

Also, Update it became under Cinemark July 26, 2013

This location has been rebranded from ‘Rave’ to ‘Cinemark’. I have added a new photo of the front of the building showing the Rave signage having been replaced with Cinemark signage.

I have watched movies here so many times.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/32902

The theatre name is STILL Rave Baldwin Hills Crenshaw 15. Cinemark has kept the “Rave Cinemas” branding and has added said branding to their homepage.

Please change the theatre’s name.

Mr Neff,

You should go to the location or call it. I think you know the GM

I took a tour yesterday and uploaded 4 pics to this theatre’s page. The status needs to be changed to “Open.”

As for the theatre itself, it is considerably smaller than it was during the Magic Johnson era. Lobby is drastically smaller with 1 concession area servicing the whole theatre (a nightmare waiting to happen for the poor soul who gets to the theatre 5 minutes before showtime!).

Auditorium seating ranges from 90 to over 300. The 300 seaters are their “raveXtreme” auditoriums featuring nicely wide screens (but not tall like IMAX or even the wannabe Digital IMAX/AMC ETX/Cinemark XD screens) and top notch sound. I caught the 2nd half of “Fast Five” in the X2 Extreme auditorium…pity the poor souls who have to sit dead in front!). Regular auds fluctuate between side masking in some and top masking in others. Theatre is all digital projection with 7 auditoriums exclusively dedicated to Real 3D projection.

IMO, their biggest issue will be controlling the teenyboppers who will crush this place to bits on weekends!

Rave’s website now says it will open June 29th.

Rave Motion Pictures will be the operator of this theater when $10 million in renovations are completed; the projected reopening is by Memorial Day 2011: View link

N/A had monster auditoriums, consider West Springfield, MA which was cobbled together from 3 older buildings – the two largest theaters which I consider to be monsters for stadium seating era multiplexes (they may even have larger screens that the nearby retrofit IMAX at Buckland Hills/Manchester, CT) – were once one major auditorium. Now that I’d love to see a picture of.

But back to Scott’s point and I’m not sure if in the move to CinemaTour the National sites that Rave just bought this came up. I don’t know how some Cinema De Lux sites were converted, but at Buckland they removed an auditorium for Chatters and the food court, took out the center snack bar and put in a new one at the halfway point the lobby and built a theater in what was once half the lobby. That’s the only example I could think of in the modern stadium era, most Loews additions were add-ons only because the theaters weren’t that large. If anything the stadium era downsized itself when AMC, Regal and Cinemark figured out anything over 20 screens wasn’t really sustainable.

I would be interested in finding a modern chain complex that has subdivided a theatre for more screens. It seems unless space is an issue that most chains nowadays will choose to add on instead of divide.

Bob Jensen or anyone: when they increased from 12 up to 15 screens in 2003, did they subdivide some larger auditoriums, or did they do some new construction adding additional seats?

Never went to this one.